{"id":79021,"date":"2026-07-01T04:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/defence-investment-plan-will-the-uks-plan-for-defence-help-it-hit-natos-spending-target\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:19:31","slug":"defence-investment-plan-will-the-uks-plan-for-defence-help-it-hit-natos-spending-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/defence-investment-plan-will-the-uks-plan-for-defence-help-it-hit-natos-spending-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Investment Plan: Will the UK&#8217;s plan for defence help it hit Nato&#8217;s spending target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prime minister has frequently claimed the government is spending \u00a3270bn on defence over this parliament which he says is &#8220;the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the 1980s&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This number represents the total cash spending figure for the MoD budget set out in the 2025 Spending Review, covering the four years to 2028-29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Keir said today that the DIP increases this by &#8220;a further \u00a315bn&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So this \u00a315bn figure is an increase in defence spending over four years relative to previous plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reports suggest that the original DIP would have increased spending by \u00a313.5bn over four years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That suggests that, over four years, the government has found an additional \u00a31.5bn for defence since Healey resigned from Sir Keir&#8217;s cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rachel Reeves <a href=\"https:\/\/questions-statements.parliament.uk\/written-statements\/detail\/2026-06-30\/hcws165\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">said in a statement<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> that of the \u00a315bn, \u00a310.3bn had been identified now, and &#8220;a further \u00a34.7bn over four years will be confirmed at Budget 2026&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn07ey43xpeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister has frequently claimed the government is spending \u00a3270bn on defence over this parliament which he says is &#8220;the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the 1980s&#8221;. This number represents the total cash spending figure for the MoD budget set out in the 2025 Spending Review, covering the four years to 2028-29. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[1171,129,4283,21063,127,2053,835,5387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79023,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79021\/revisions\/79023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}